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The new trait seemed to have completely transformed my body. Not only did my MP recovery rate increase, my max MP had tripled. Originally, 1 INT provided 10 MP. Now, every INT point added 30 MP to my reserves. It was a pretty crazy trait.

Furthermore, unlike other sorcerers who typically drew energy from other dimensions or external sources to power their spells, I was one of the rare sorcerers who used their personal energy to fuel their spells. That was because I had access to MP.

Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj made use of Eldritch Energy – the distinctive golden-orange sparks of fiery energy – which was the energy derived from our home dimension or something like that, the books wasn't super clear on its origins.

Whereas for me, MP or mana, which seemed to be interchangeable in the system information, was my personal reserve of energy that I could use at will. This also meant that I did not have to rely on a connection with any other entity in order to cast spells, nor did I have to draw energy from any dimension. My powers were truly mine.

And the colour of my spells were also different as a result of this. While other sorcerers had orange spark like energy fuelling their spells, mine was a bright blue that resembled the focused and clean blue fire of a Bunsen burner.

This didn't mean I couldn't draw energy from another dimension, just that I didn't have to. Maybe one day, if I found myself needing an extra boost of strength, I could tap on to universal or dimensional energy.

After studying for 3 weeks, I was able to generate several magic-related skills.

[Illusion] LVL: 4

[Conjuration] LVL: 5

[Abjuration] LVL: 2

[Enchantment] LVL: 1

[Transmutation] LVL: 3

Illusion magic focused on deceiving and bending perceptions, be it sight, sound, smell or even, at its highest pinnacle, touch. Illusion magic allowed the user to cast a veil over reality, presenting their own version of it to the viewer. Such spells included invisibility, creating illusory bodies, or even sending imprisoning someone within their own mental prison for the rest of their life.

Conjuration gathered energy and shaped a form, allowing the user to impose their will on the energy to create matter. Said created matter were usually temporary. The sorcerers of Kamar-Taj specialized in Conjuration, and the creation of swords, whips and arrows were their bread and butter in combat. Needless to say, with the sheer volume of Conjuration school spells within my curriculum, it was the skill that I could grind the most.

Abjuration referred to spells of a protective nature – wards, barriers, and similar spellcraft. They could create both physical and magical barriers, intended to negate both physical and magical abilities, or even banish the subject of the spell to another dimension.

Enchantment, was of course the act of enchanting objects in order to give them a magical, or simply supernatural effects. Some magic are too powerful for the human body to sustain, and so practitioners of the Mystic Arts were able to find a way to imbue objects with it, allowing them to take the strain that the human body cannot. Doctor Strange's cloak of levitation, for instance, was an artefact created through the art of Enchantment.

Transmutation could be seen as a subset of conjuration, consisting of spells that changed the physical properties of the target object or even creature. Transmutation spells ranged from altering the chemical composition of elements to enhancing the physical ability of the target. Under the school of transmutation included Alchemy, the practice of creating potions, elixirs and tinctures.

These seemed to be the main schools, or types of magics that mortal sorcerers had developed over the past eons of magic's history. The most primitive tribal shamans first discovered sorcery, then their knowledge was passed down to generations of medicine men, witch doctors, occultists, before developing into a more structured and organized form of sorcery we now know of today.

As much as I wanted to delve more into the history of magic (which was not at all) and its incredibly fascinating (read: boring) and detailed chronicles of historical sorcerers, I was more interested in the immediate benefits.

My INT had risen sharply after reading dozens of grimoires and tomes on spellcraft. If a technical manual on engineering could give me +8 INT with a bonus of +16 INT from [Genius-level Intellect], magical tomes gave me +10 INT with a bonus of +20 INT on average. Over a hundred books later over a period of six weeks, my INT shot up by another couple thousand.

This was all of course thanks to my near max level [Speed Reading] skill, which reduced my reading time by an order of magnitudes, and incredibly high INT stat that just kept on improving my cognitive processing speed.

I haven't been able to fight anyone yet, but with these new spells in repertoire, I judged that I was around Falcon level of strength, also who I considered to be the weakest Avenger. What I needed to surpass that at my current level would be combat experience, but that was something still pretty far away…

Regardless, my pursuit of magic was ceaseless. Even as I maintained my illusory body, who at this very moment was listening to some fairy tale story book being read by one of the teachers, I concealed myself and continued practicing my spells, grinding skill exp and levelling them up.

I did not overlook my stat grinding either, as I continued reading a book that levitated in front of my face, with pages flipping regularly, while I cast spells with my free hands. By now, a little over a year since my rebirth, my stats were pretty crazy for a 4 year old.

Name: Lee Jae Sung

Level: 25

Next Level: 30340/93750

HP: 4370/4370

MP: 228240/228240

STR: 51.5

VIT: 43.7

DEX: 60.3

INT: 7608

CHA: 26

Points: 120

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I had always kept my free points in reserve, seeing no urgency in using them with how rapidly my stats grew anyway.

And the numbers on my status screen wasn't meaningless either. I had snuck into a gym one day and after some observation and experimentation, I was able to convert physical stat points into real life empirical data.

I found that the average adult male had around the equivalent of 100 STR. Which meant I was already half as strong as the average adult male. I wasn't even close to being at superhuman levels yet, but with time, I could surpass Steve Rogers in a few years especially once I lost my [Toddler] trait. 

VIT was a difficult measurement, since it directly contributed to HP, and that was not a data point any other human had aside from myself.

DEX contributed to movement speed, agility, nimbleness and even reaction speed. It was also difficult to measure.

But if 100 STR was the average for adult males, then it was likely that 100 VIT and 100 DEX was also the average.